After doing a search and not coming up with an answer I decided to ask one here. I got golfer's elbow so bad last year from chin ups I had to lay off of them completely, as well as deadlifts. It was so bad I couldn't hang a grocery bag of 10 lbs of chicken from my arm, press a towel on my face to dry it off, brush my teeth, etc. While miraculously getting around that to still be able to do my pushing exercises (high bar squat, bench, OHP), my neck then started bothering me I had to stop working out altogether. My neck never bothered me before that very badly and I suspected I was causing a posture imbalance by only training the pushing exercises, pulling my shoulders forward. While I did find out it was a spur in my neck, my physical therapist confirmed it probably got worse due to bad posture.
The exercises he prescribed completely alleviated the pain, numbness in hands, weakness in arms, everything involved the pinched nerve, and he gave me the ok to go back to weight training.
Now that my elbow is better I want to do it, but here's the question;
Is my elbow healed?
A few months ago Mark alluded to the fact it wasn't even though I told him it didn't hurt anymore and I did a small test of 135 lb deadlift with no pain. But then he never elaborated on that statement and after further dialogue gave me the go ahead to resume training.
I'd really like to know why Mark said that my elbow wasn't healed after over a year of lay off with no more pain. Is it because I didn't keep up with some therapy for it and go back to immediately training it? Am I doing to have to do that before resuming a full on NLP like I did last time?
I just don't want any surprises after I've worked through another 3 mos of NLP and back up to over 300 lbs deadlifts to have to full on stop everything again.